Abstract:The correlation between atrial fibrillation (AF) and thromboembolism is well known. In 1951, Raymond Daley et al. associated the occurrence of this arrhythmia to systemic embolic events with consistent information in patients with chronic rheumatic heart disease1. In this study involving 194 patients with rheumatic heart disease who were victims of thromboembolism, with autopsy information in 39 patients, the presence of AF was demonstrated in about 90% of cases. The classic Framingham study, published in 1978… Show more
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